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W ZINGG

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PubMed1964

VASCULAR ANASTOMOSIS--SUTURES, STAPLES OR GLUE?

Different vascular suturing techniques were assessed in the experimental laboratory. Staples made of tantulum wire were employed for vascular anastomoses in normal dogs' arteries and veins and in atherosclerotic rabbits' aortas. The staples were driven with the NRC Vascular Suturing Instrument. In a similar series of experiments a plastic bonding agent (Eastman 910) was used. The anastomosed vessels were found to be patent and few complications were encountered. However, it is unlikely that the conventional suture technique with the currently available materials will be replaced by these methods except under special circumstances. Clinical application of the stapling method is envisaged in the anastomosis of small vessels and in situations when speed is essential, whereas the bonding agent promises to be useful as an ancillary method in combination with sutures or staples.

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PubMed1962

Cold injury in civil disaster.

Patients exposed to cold environment following a disaster may be suffering from local cold injury or from systemic cold injury (accidental hypothermia). The treatment of the former is well established and consists of rapid rewarming of the frozen parts and physical therapy; early amputation is not advisable. Recommendations for the assessment and treatment of total body cooling, based on case reports of accidental hypothermia, on the results of animal experiments and on the clinical experience with induced hypothermia, are not well established and are controversial. Since, at temperatures below 30 degrees C., death may be caused by cardiac arrhythmias and since, at this low level, spontaneous rewarming may not be possible, active rewarming is recommended at this stage. At a higher temperature level, vigorous warming is dangerous, and the patient's own regulatory mechanisms should be allowed to restore the temperature.

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